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Dr. John Arnold Farm

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Area
  
160 acres (65 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
89001409

Built
  
c. 1820 (1820), 1853

Dr. John Arnold Farm

Location
  
West of Glenwood and northeast of Rushville, Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana

Built by
  
Smith, Tom; Smith, William E.

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival, Midwest three portal barn

Dr. John Arnold Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located in Union Township, Rush County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1853, and is two-story, Gothic Revival style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in clapboard and has a five-gabled roof forming a double crossed "T"-plan. It features a wraparound front porch added about 1900, and a decorative vergeboard. Also on the property are the contributing remains of an early settlement established in the 1820s, including the remains of the original John Arnold cabin, tomb, and cemetery. Other contributing buildings and structures include a smokehouse, milk house]], privy, tool shed, buggy shed / garage, chicken house, granary, corn crib / shed, cattle barn, calf shed, and two additional corn cribs.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

Dr. John Arnold Farm Wikipedia